The Premio Planeta is no small prize. Second only to the Nobel in terms of lucre, it offers a meaty 500,000 euros to the winner, usually an author of some renown, and a nice 120,000 to the runner up, generally an up-and-comer. It is undoubtedly one of the major literary prizes of the Spanish Speaking world and thus it wouldn’t be totally outrageous to consider the [...]
Archive for January, 2008
Jaime Bayly- Portrait of the Artist as a Middle-Aged Douchebag
Posted in Span505 on January 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
George Carlin
Posted in Uncategorized on January 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Monty Burns Award for Achievement in the Field of Excellence
Posted in Span505 on January 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Reading James English’s book The Economy of Prestige just gave me an interesting idea for a paper topic. Has anyone ever done a comparative study of the various winners of a single literary prize? It would be interesting to examine how the winners compare in terms of meeting certain aesthetic or thematic criteria. Do the winners share common politics or aesthetics? [...]
Bordieu…..”Bordelle!”
Posted in Span505, tagged Span505 on January 14, 2008 | 8 Comments »
I just finished slogging my way through two meaty articles by Pierre Bordieu “The Market of Symbolic Goods” and “The Market For Symbolic Goods” (Yes, they are different, though somewhat the same). I’m still not exactly sure what I just read, I know they were words and I know they were in English…Theory is a Bitch Goddess….
The [...]
Welcome
Posted in Uncategorized on January 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Why Pareidolia? Because it would be such an awesome name for either A: a prog rock band, B: a painting, or C: a book of poems, especially poems written as a series of short fragments whose meaning is generated in the tense, vibrating spaces between the white page and the black marks scattered across it. Pareidolia is a phenomenon [...]
